Tracey Ann Jacobson is an American diplomat and a former United States ambassador to Turkmenistan,Tajikistan,Kosovo and Ethiopia. She served as the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from January 2017 through October 2017. She retired then returned to active duty in 2021 as the State Department's Director of the Afghanistan Task Force,and then as Chargéd’Affaires,ad interim,at the Embassy in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia. In January 2024,she was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the United States ambassador to Iraq.
The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (SAF/AQ) is a civilian position in the Department of the Air Force that is appointed by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. This position is established under Title 10 US Code Section 9016 and is one of five Assistant Secretary positions under the Secretary of the Air Force. The Assistant Secretary reports to the Secretary of the Air Force.
Mari Carmen Aponte is an American attorney and diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Panama in the Biden administration since November 2022. She previously served as acting assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs on May 5,2016. She also served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador from August 2010 until December 2011 and again from June 14,2012,until December 2015. Before that she was serving as a member of the board of directors of Oriental Group,a major financial and banking services enterprise in Puerto Rico. President Obama also nominated her as the United States' permanent representative to the Organization of American States,but the Senate had not acted upon that nomination upon adjournment in December 2014.
Heidi Shyu is a Taiwanese-born American engineer who has served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in the Biden administration since July 25,2021. She previously served as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition,Logistics,and Technology ASA(ALT) from 2012 to January 30,2016.
Bonnie Denise Jenkins currently serves as the under secretary of state for arms control and international security affairs. During the Obama administration,she was the U.S. Department of State's coordinator for threat reduction programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.
Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall is an American national security and energy leader,public servant,educator,and author currently serving as the 11th United States Homeland Security Advisor to President Joe Biden since 2021. She previously served in both the Clinton and Obama Administrations and held appointments at academic institutions and think tanks.
Mary Catherine "Molly" Phee is an American diplomat who has served as assistant secretary of state for African affairs since September 2021. She previously served as the U.S. ambassador to South Sudan from 2015 to 2017. She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of minister counselor.
Jacqueline Desiree Van Ovost is a retired United States Air Force general who last served as the 14th commander of United States Transportation Command from 2021 to 2024. She was nominated to that post by President Biden on March 5,2021. Van Ovost had previously served as the commander of Air Mobility Command from 2020 to 2021. In early 2021,she was the only active-duty female four-star general officer in the United States.
Christine Elizabeth Wormuth is an American defense official and career civil servant who serves as the United States secretary of the Army since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,she is the first female United States secretary of the Army.
Alina L. Romanowski is an American career diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq from June 2022 to December 2024. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Kuwait from February 2020 to April 2022.
Barbara A. Leaf is a U.S. diplomat serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs since May 2022. As former Senior Foreign Service officer,she served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 2015 to 2018.
Jill M. Hruby is an American mechanical engineer and government official. Since July 26,2021,Hruby has served as Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration,a post subject to Senate confirmation. Jill Hruby made history as the first woman to ever head a U.S. nuclear weapons lab,serving as director of Sandia National Laboratories from 2015 to 2017.
Deborah G. Rosenblum is an American nuclear expert and former career civil servant. She currently serves as the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. She had served Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear,Chemical &Biological Defense Programs in the Biden administration.
Meredith Ashley Berger is an American government official who is serving as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy,Installations,and Environment;a position she has held since August 5,2021. From August 25,2021,until April 13,2022,she concurrently served as the designated official performing the duties of the United States Under Secretary of the Navy.
Robert Peter Silvers is an American lawyer and government official who has served as the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Strategy,Policy,and Plans since 2021.
Caral Elizabeth Spangler (née Erickson);is an American government official who has served as the Assistant Secretary of the Army since August 17,2021.
Mara Elizabeth Karlin is an American foreign policy and defense advisor. In April 2021,President Joe Biden nominated Karlin to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy,Plans and Capabilities. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by voice vote on August 9,2021. Previously,she served as the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. In her role,she served as the main advisor to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on U.S. security policies related to every country in Europe,the Middle East,Africa,Eurasia,and the Western Hemisphere. Her portfolio included shaping U.S. defense policy related to NATO.
Gabriel Omar Camarillo is an American attorney who has served as the 35th under secretary of the Army in the Biden administration since February 8,2022. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force from 2015 to 2017 during the Obama administration.
